{"id":16,"date":"2016-12-08T17:50:09","date_gmt":"2016-12-08T22:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canlawblog.com\/?p=13"},"modified":"2016-12-08T17:50:09","modified_gmt":"2016-12-08T22:50:09","slug":"federal-court-of-canada-does-not-have-inherent-jurisdiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canlawblog.com\/index.php\/2016\/12\/08\/federal-court-of-canada-does-not-have-inherent-jurisdiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal Court of Canada does not have inherent jurisdiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court of Canada ruled that the Federal Court does not have inherent jurisdiction:<\/p>\n<p>To decide whether the Federal Court has jurisdiction over a claim, it is necessary to determine the essential nature or character of that claim. Determining the claim\u2019s essential nature allows the court to assess whether it falls within the scope of <a class=\"reflex2-link\" href=\"https:\/\/zoupio.lexum.com\/calegis\/rsc-1985-c-f-7-en#!fragment\/sec23\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">s.\u00a023<span class=\"decisia-reflex2-icon\">\u00a0<\/span><\/a>(c) of the <i><a class=\"reflex2-link\" href=\"https:\/\/zoupio.lexum.com\/calegis\/rsc-1985-c-f-7-en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Federal Courts Act<span class=\"decisia-reflex2-icon\">\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/i>, which grants jurisdiction to the Federal Court only when a claim for relief has been made, or a remedy has been sought, \u201cunder an Act of Parliament or otherwise\u201d. &#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Court has only the jurisdiction it has been conferred by statute: it is a statutory court, without inherent jurisdiction. Accordingly, the language of the <i><a class=\"reflex2-link\" href=\"https:\/\/zoupio.lexum.com\/calegis\/rsc-1985-c-f-7-en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Federal Courts Act<span class=\"decisia-reflex2-icon\">\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/i> is completely determinative of the scope of the Court\u2019s jurisdiction. Parliament established the Federal Court pursuant to its competence, under <a class=\"reflex2-link\" href=\"https:\/\/zoupio.lexum.com\/calegis\/30---31-vict-c-3-en#!fragment\/sec101\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">s.\u00a0101<span class=\"decisia-reflex2-icon\">\u00a0<\/span><\/a> of the <i><a class=\"reflex2-link\" href=\"https:\/\/zoupio.lexum.com\/calegis\/30---31-vict-c-3-en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Constitution Act, 1867<span class=\"decisia-reflex2-icon\">\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/i>, to establish \u201cadditional Courts for the better Administration of the Laws of Canada\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/canlawblog.com\/windsor-city-v-canadian-transit-co-2016-scc-54\/\">Windsor (City) v. Canadian Transit Co.,\u00a02016 SCC 54<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court of Canada ruled that the Federal Court does not have inherent jurisdiction: To decide whether the Federal Court has jurisdiction over a claim, it is necessary to determine the essential nature or character of that claim. Determining the claim\u2019s essential nature allows the court to assess whether it falls within the scope [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rule-of-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canlawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canlawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canlawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canlawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canlawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canlawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canlawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canlawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canlawblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}